Inheriting the Song Dynasty

In 1127 AD, the Northern Song Dynasty fell. Immediately, the ninth imperial prince, Zhao Gou, ascended the throne in Shangqiu amidst widespread anticipation, inheriting the Song imperial line and r...

Chapter 42 Before and After

Under the hasty march and the pressure of manpower, except for a cavalry of more than 200 Beiwei Army who were on Guo Dadao's marching route, the rest could not easily step forward to stop them. The leader of this Beiwei Army cavalry was none other than Li Zhang, the Putian Diao, who was from Hu Cheng's command and had followed Yue Fei for a long time.

Li Zhang was originally a hero from Yizhou, and was known for his bravery in the army. How could he retreat at all? Seeing this, he was both angry and happy, and went straight to meet the enemy head-on.

The two cavalry units collided, swords and spears were wielded, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and Li Zhang was in high spirits of killing, and he led seven or eight of his fellow cavalrymen to kill several long-sword cavalrymen in a row, and directly fell into the enemy's formation. For a moment, his momentum was not weaker than that of Li Cheng's famous long-sword cavalry.

But at this moment, Guo Zhongwei saw Li Zhang, and still did not say a word. He just lowered his head and dragged his sword forward in the army formation. However, under the cover of the other long-sword cavalry, he suddenly accelerated silently, suddenly rushed to the side of the opponent, and then swung his sword with all his strength.

With just one swing, he cut Li Zhang in half from the left side of his neck to the right side of his armpit, beheading him under his horse.

It was not until this time that the long sword cavalry shouted together, gathered together with Guo Dadao as the core, easily dispersed the Dangmian Beiwei army that had lost its command, and then continued to move towards Yue Fei's flag.

Of course, the long-sword cavalry were too conspicuous. After crossing the cavalry melee area, they were directly seen by Yue Fei and Tang Huai.

"With such a large force, they advance and then slow down, slow down and then advance. Although they have some losses, they keep moving forward. There must be a general who is in charge!" Tang Huai saw the result after just a moment. "I will go to meet him!"

"Wait for him to come!" Yue Fei, who was sitting on his horse and under the banner, looked at him coldly and raised his hand to stop him. "We can just keep pushing the soldiers and the cavalry forward."

Tang Huai knew what his brother meant, so he immediately nodded in understanding. He then led his personal guards to the commander's flag, and then called Bi Jin and gave him a signal.

After a while, I don't know if it was the deliberate indulgence of the Song army, but after this long-sword cavalry entered the Song army's infantry formation, the resistance they encountered was not so serious. The soldiers along the way were just blocking and consuming their energy layer by layer.

However, when Guo Dadao rushed to a distance from the commander's flag, he saw Yue Fei and dozens of cavalrymen in obvious armor within his field of vision in front of the commander's flag. He turned around and saw that there were only a dozen cavalrymen left behind him. He knew what was going on... The Song army was deliberately indulging themselves, peeling off the layers, and then luring him to take the big and small eyes when the number of soldiers and horses became fewer and fewer.

Otherwise, why was there such a strict arrangement under the commander's flag, but the general was standing in front?

This is a trap.

However, knowing this, the skilled and daring Guo Dadao was angry that he was underestimated, but he didn't care and urged the last ten or so riders to move forward, throwing away the commander's flag and heading straight for Yue Fei... You must know, there are so many weapons in the world, why did Guo Zhongwei use a long-handled broadsword on horseback? Isn't it because the broadsword is sharpened before the battle, and then with a strong swing, no matter how powerful your martial arts are, how well-armored you are, or how famous you are, you can kill with just one blow?

Since Guo Dadao was heading straight for Yue Fei, Yue Fei's personal guards were no fools and naturally swarmed to meet him. Dozens of them were almost ready to surround the last dozen or so long-sword knights. However, Guo Zhongwei had rich battlefield experience and had anticipated this. He suddenly accelerated and rushed forward before the enemy could surround him.

Yue Fei, who had already turned his head and squinted to look at the approaching person, was not afraid at all. He simply turned around and rode his horse to meet him.

As soon as the two generals and their horses met, Guo Dadao began to panic... because just now he had used the momentum of his horse to chop down with his sword, but was easily deflected by the opponent's steel spear, which showed that the two men's horsemanship was not evenly matched. When he was at a disadvantage, he remembered his commander's instructions and was about to turn to the direction of the commander's flag, but unexpectedly Yue Fei turned very quickly behind him and soon followed him on horseback, and stabbed him in the back with another spear. Guo Zhongwei was embarrassed and could only turn around and block with his side hand, but this action inevitably deformed the action and the force was not applied properly, and then he just felt numb at the base of his palm, and the opponent's steel spear directly pressed the long sword in his hand.

Since Guo Dadao had lost his sword, he became more and more frightened, so he reined in his horse again and prepared to turn around and flee.

Unexpectedly, just because of this rein in, the horse's speed slowed down a little, and Yue Fei took advantage of the horse's speed to bully him. Then, this dignified commander of the front army of the imperial camp threw away his spear, took a sharp machete from the other side of the horse, and then held the knife with both hands, and chopped hard at the back of the opponent's neck on the horse. He actually chopped all the way from Guo Dadao's neck to the opponent's crotch, and did not stop, and then cut the saddle and injured the horse's back before stopping.

Guo Dadao was also chopped into two pieces, with his internal organs scattered all over the ground.

Yue Fei's half body was covered in blood. He stopped his horse without saying a word, then got down to the ground to pick up his spear, calmly mounted his horse again, and when he returned to the front of the general's flag, he continued to command and mobilize the troops.

Not far away, the cavalrymen with long swords who were still resisting and the infantrymen of Li Cheng's army who were close by saw this scene, and they were all terrified as if they had seen a ghost. This time, Guo Dadao's surprise attack was inevitably dissipated directly.

Li Cheng was far away, and although he didn't know that his sword had been split in half vertically and his intestines might not be reconnected, he saw Guo Zhongwei trapped in the Song army's formation and never returned, and the morale of the Song army in front seemed to be boosted for a while, he naturally guessed that Guo's sword had failed.

However, Li Cheng was not incompetent. After one general died, he sent a messenger without hesitation, and ordered Xu Dadao, who was in charge of the army at the junction of the north and the central part, and his two hundred long-sword knights, plus one thousand Jinan cavalry, to continue to maintain the suppression of the central line.

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